Land-anchor for fence-posts.



PATENTED JULY 30, 1907.

I No. 861,543.

A. T. SHAFER.

LAND ANCHOR FOR FENCE POSTS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 27, 1907.

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UNITED STATES AARON T. SHAFER, or ALLENVILLE, ILLINOIS.

LAND-ANCHOR: non FENCE-POSTS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented l'uly 30,1907.

Application filed March 27, 1907. Serial No- 364,930.

- To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AARON T. SHAFER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Allenville, county of Moultrie, and State of Illinois, have invented "certain new and useful Improvements in Land-Anchors for Fence- Posts, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to land anchors for fence posts. 7 Posts for wire fences are subject to the drawing action of the fence wires or the wire fencing and in the course of time .btcome aslant and loose, and it has heretofore been proposed to anchor fence posts to counteract strain of the wires or wirefencing thereon.

My invention relates to the character of devices above set forth and it has fo'rits object the remedy of defects heretofore incident to fence post land'anchors.

The objects of the present "invention are the provision of a land anchor of simple and inexpensive structure which will be adapted for connection to the I parts of the fence post, all of which will more fully appear' from the following specification, while the novel features are recited in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure l is a view illustrating the invention, in use; and Fig. 2, a detail perspective of the anchor, the nuts being removed.

The numeral 1 designates an end fence post which it is desired to anchor, 2 being the wires.

I employ a metal rod or small pipe 3 having an. eyev 4 at its upper end and provided with adjusting and check nuts 5 and 6 on its lower screw-threaded end 7.

The numeral 8 designates a metal plate which may be round, square, or of any other shape, which is loose on the rod 3. Interposed between the plate 8 and the nut 5 is a strong coil spring 9.

In applying the invention to a fence post, twistedwires or small wire cables 10, 11 and 12 are connected to I-bolts 13, 14 and 15 running through the post 1 or in any other desired manner, and are secured to the eye 4, the anchor proper having first been buried in the ground, as shown. In burying the anchor in the ground, a hole largeenough to accommodate the plate 8 is bored by an earth auger or is made in any other ordinary manner and is driven sufficiently deep the plate 8, but the depth to which the anchor is buried.

is not sufficient to prevent free sliding of the rod 3. p

The tileor tube A permits free action of the spring.

The rod 3 can be pulled up sufficiently, after the anchor has been buried, to place any desired tension on the spring 9, and "it will be seen that this spring 9 provides an automatic compensator, allowing the rod 3 to move as found necessary to compensate for the expansion and contraction of the fence wires so that whatever may be'the temperature, the anchor always exerts. the proper anchoring effect on the fence post. By twisting the wires or cables 10, 11 and 1.2, they may be tightened to any desired extent; tribution of the anchoring action at the-three points, top, center and bottom, of the fence post, insures even strain on all parts of the fence post so that the lower, as well as the central and upper fence wires, will all be kept at substantially the same degree of I strain.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as/new and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A land anchor comprising an anchoring plate 0r.memher, a rod having a loose or slip connection with said anchoring plate or member. an abutment on the rod below 'the anchoring plate. a coil spring surrounding the rod between the abutment and the anchoring plate or member and means at the other end of the rod for attachment to the object to be anchored.

2. A land anchor comprising an anchoring plate or member, a rod having its lower endeprovide d with. screw threads and loosely passing through the anchoring plate or member; a nut on the screw-threaded part of; the rod below the plate, a coil springsurrounding the rod between the nut and the anchoring plate or member and means at the other end of the rod for attachment to the object to be anchored. v

A land anchor comprising an anchoring plate or member, a rod loosely passing through the anchoring plate or member, and provided below the same with an abutment and at its upper end having means for attachment to the object to be anchored, a coil spring surrounding the rod belowthe plate and located between it and the abutment, and a tube or-housing loosely inclosing the coil spring and the lower end of the rod.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses. Y

- AARON T. SHAFER.

Witnesses H, B. LILLY,- C. A. LAYTON.

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